The longevity of the heavens begins with Mingyu Gong

Chapter 448 Bronze Cauldron

Looking at the dreamlike scene in front of him, Hu Bayi was the first to wake up.

Glancing at Song Xing, seeing that he calmly turned the Qingyang Sword into a pill and put it away, Hu Bayi couldn't help but sigh: "Master Song, are you really not a zongzi?"

Subdued by Song Xing's miraculous methods again and again, Hu Bayi was no longer calm.

Song Xing gave Hu Bayi a strange look, smiled, and said, "Your silence is strange."

Hu Bayi smiled bitterly and said, "But since you came to Yunnan, everything you have shown has almost subverted my perception of the world."

Hundreds of monsters were wiped out with a single strike by an ordinary-looking ancient long sword.

Why can normal human beings do such deeds that are almost divine?

Only then did Fatty Wang wake up from his stupor, and wiped his eyes vigorously, wondering if he had read it wrong.

"Do you recognize the strange insect just now?" Song Xing asked Hu Bayi.

Hu Bayi recalled the appearance of the strange worm, and said: "The appearance of this worm is very similar to the long worm, also known as the Huo's immortal worm. This kind of worm is between the invertebrate and the semi-vertebrae, and has a similar shape to the "sun goddess." "Snail"-like protective shell, no wonder the bullets couldn't penetrate it before."

"In nature, there are no natural enemies. Unless it can be eaten whole and completely digested with gastric juice, it can still survive as long as a part of the nerve network is left. But this ancient bug, due to the oxygen content in the atmosphere Jumping off a building should be extinct.”

Song Xing looked at the surrounding environment and said, "Maybe it's because of the closed environment here that this insect survived and grew to such a large size."

Seeing that there were no more obstacles ahead, Song Xing got up and walked forward: "Hurry up and follow, it should not be far from the main tomb of King Xian."

After crossing the river, they came to a cliff again. There was an ancient plank road hanging alone on the cliff wall, and the rest was submerged in the distant mist.

Walking along this plank road with some trepidation, Fatty Wang walked through the fog, and the scene in front of him shocked him again.

Above the clouds in the distance, there is a palace inlaid on the cliff. If you look closely, not only is the palace resplendent and magnificent, but its shape also resembles the map of Zhenling. On the cliffs around the palace, there are countless plank roads built around the mountain.

"When the palace was built above the clouds, how many people died in order to complete the tomb of the king?"

Looking at the resplendent palace in front of her, Xueli Yang felt sorry for her. She could imagine how many bones were buried under this palace.

The four of them climbed along the stone wall plank road to the gate of Tiangong. After climbing the steep steps, a palace with layers of Qin bricks, Han tiles, and purple golden beams appeared in front of the three of them.

Outside the palace, it is resplendent and magnificent, with carved railings and painted buildings, exquisite and meticulous, magnificent and extravagant.

The rumored Lingyun Tiangong is indeed jaw-droppingly luxurious, no matter from every angle, it coincides with a secluded Fengshui secret realm. It is really hard to imagine that this place is actually the mausoleum of the border king.

"Good guy, how much money and manpower will it take to build such a majestic palace?" Fatty Wang was dumbfounded.

The four of them came to the main entrance of the palace, and a huge stone gate blocked the entrance to the palace.

Fatty Wang looked at Song Xing expectantly: "Master Song, can you still open this stone gate?"

Song Xing pointed to Hu Bayi's backpack and said, "Take out the dragon and tiger stick that I found in the blood jade coffin before, and try it out."

Hu Bayi took out the dragon and tiger short stick, studied it carefully, divided it into two parts, looked at the stone gate, found two holes, inserted the short stick into the stone keyhole, and within a moment, the heavy stone gate opened by itself.

A few people came to the main hall of Tiangong, and there were huge stone statues arrayed on both sides, with strange shapes, which seemed to originate from ancient gods.

The temperature in the main hall dropped significantly, and the more you walked in, the colder it felt. A bronze tripod was placed in the middle, which aroused Song Xing's interest.

This bronze tripod was cast from metals such as red copper and tin. It was not the turquoise color that had been buried in the ground for a long time, but its original golden color, shining brightly in this hall.

As symbols of political and economic power in the ancient society ruled by ritual, tripods and gui made by kings and marquises are also regarded as the source of the legitimacy of state power.

It is said that Dayu "collected the gold from Jiu Mu, cast Jiu Ding, and cast the tripod at the foot of Jingshan Mountain, each resembling the objects of Jiuzhou" is the symbol of the founding of the Xia Dynasty, which ruled the Central Plains.

And "Xia Houshi lost it, Yin people received it; Yin people lost it, Zhou people received it." It shows that every time a dynasty prospers, "Jiuding" will change hands accordingly.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, Duke Zhuang of Chu asked the envoy of King Ding of Zhou "asking for the size and importance of the crown", making the term "asking for the crown" a classic term for coveting state power or generally referring to trying to gain dominance.

The transfer of bronze ritual vessels placed in the royal family or the ancestral temple is essentially the transfer of power brought about by the redistribution of power and wealth. supreme political power.

Aristocrats at all levels have strict regulations on the types and quantities of ritual utensils used, and the types and quantities directly represent the level of nobility.

The so-called "bell ringing and dining food" refers to the huge scene of a prosperous family and many servants, which has become a symbol of nobles showing their nobility.

The bronze tripod in front of Song Xing is tall and straight, with a thick and heavy body. It is shaped like a round belly, with a slightly rounded bottom, a retracted mouth, folded along a square lip, slightly inclined inward, and a bulging abdomen. erect ears.

The inner part of the lower part of the ear extends into the abdomen of the device, the lower part of the three-column foot is slightly inward, the inner bottom corresponding to the foot has three deep holes, the outer side of the ear is decorated with two grooves, the neck has six short ridges, and six groups of animal face patterns are decorated There are two types in each group, one with a body and one without a body. The upper part of the foot is decorated with sheep horns and animal faces, and the animal horns protrude from the surface.

Song Xing guessed that this bronze tripod should be a large tripod built by Xian Wang to imitate the heart of the Central Plains emperors to rule the world, and was used to cook corpses to sacrifice to heaven in sacrificial ceremonies.

Looking beyond the tripod, there are some murals carved on the walls of the palace.

The deeds that happened in the ancient Dian Kingdom can be inferred from the murals, and there are many sacrificial activities related to divination and witchcraft.

On the left and right sides of the throne in the main hall, there are murals dedicated to the king. As for the general meaning of the ancient seal characters carved on the murals, it introduces the origin of Muchen Bead.

Looking at the red stone on the top of the crown of Xian in the mural, Hu Bayi was a little excited: "Great, it seems that this is Muchen Bead, and Muchen Bead is indeed in the tomb of King Xian."

Fatty Wang turned his head to look at the resplendent and resplendent palace, his heart was also excited: "Could it be that this is the tomb of the king?"

Song Xing shook his head and said: "There is a bronze tripod, which means that this is the place where the king is sacrificed to the gods. It is built on the cliff to be closer to the gods. This should not be the tomb of the king."

Shirley Yang and Hu Bayi also thought that what Song Xing said was reasonable, but Fatty Wang searched the palace without giving up.

Song Xing stretched out his hand again and threw out a few copper coins. The copper coins rolled on the ground and finally stopped in the five directions of east, west, north, south, and south.

(End of this chapter)